Make Money, No Website Needed: 5-Step Program To Earn Extra Money Online
Are you thinking of making extra money online to maintain monthly cashflows during the current economic climate?
Well, you can make extra money online - even without actually having a website built - but the amount will depend a lot on what you are prepared to put into this method.
What follows are the bare bones of a simple website-less process I use for a small, but meaningfull income stream.
1. Find a product and get your affiliate URL: The easiest is to visit ClickBank’s Marketplace and find a popular product that preferably also interests you. You can also look at the top products (CB Movers and Shakers) at cbengine.com. Tip: It helps to find a product which offers lots of promotional copy (especially articles you can adapt) in its affiliate area as this will make it much easier and quicker to get going.
2. Do basic keyword research: With your product in mind, and having looked through the affiliate material the merchant offers, visit Google’s keyword tool and find some keyword phrases to start with. Your keywords should have a decent number of monthly searches, say 1000 or more, but don’t take the top keywords, those will be too difficult to rank for in the search engines.
3. Get a useful, descriptive domain: I always try to find a keyword-phrase domain, however, the domain should not be too long, say 12 - 16 characters (including dashes). I usually get my domains at godaddy.com. Remember, you won’t need a hosting package for this method, just the domain! Once it’s in the bag you go into your domain management area - at godaddy - and set up a permanent forward to your affiliate URL. Now you’re all set: if you send someone to your domain and they purchase the product, you should see your affiliate commission in your ClickBank account within minutes!
4. Prepare to promote your domain: Yes, you have to do some work as well! Here’s what you can do to get the ball rolling. Start writing your first two or three articles. If the merchant offers promotional articles, use them for ideas, but try to write in your own words and style. Be sure to include two or three keyword phrases in the heading and spread throughout the article (say one phrase every 100 words). For starters prepare one article of at least 250 words, and one of 500 words minimum.
5. Submit your first articles: There are many places where you can submit your articles, but I will just mention the few I have used to get a basic flow of visitors to my domain going. If you write your article a bit like a press release you can make use of PRlog.org’s free system. I get good results here, and they even permit pictures. Most importantly, you can have at least one live URL link in your article - where you put your domain! Once your article/press release has been submitted it is important to distribute the link by using a free service like onlywire.com. Within minutes you should start seeing visitors (PRlog.org offers you stats, and they also explain nicely how to write and format a press release). Next take you 500-word article and submit it at Isnare.com, taking care to include your domain in the resource box. It costs a dollar or two per submission, but it gives your domain traffic that can keep coming for weeks or longer. The only initial drawback is that Isnare takes its time: you can wait 3 weeks or longer for that distribution, but I consider it worth the wait. In any event, if you submit say one article per week, you should eventually see one distribution per week. Lastly, ezinearticles.com: submit one of your shorter articles here after making sure you’re following their submission guidelines. They permit a live affiliate link provided it is via a top-level domain redirect - such as the one you set up for your domain.
Tip: (and I have yet to see anyone recommend this site) I get very good results from submitting original articles to americanchronicle.com. Before they will accept you as an author, you do have to direct them to some of your published articles elsewhere. This site is not for rehashed articles, but worth the effort: I’ve hit 1000 views per article within days on occasion, but this will of course depend on your topic, keywords etc.
Repeat the actions in steps 4 and 5 (plus regular keyword research) until you have submitted say 20 articles and press releases. This could give you a steady stream of visitors clicking through your domain for quite a while! Of course, the more you add to your visibility by increasing your articles, the better!